Schools: Admission Policies Debate

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Department: Department for Education

Schools: Admission Policies

Baroness Brinton Excerpts
Monday 22nd July 2013

(11 years, 10 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Nash Portrait Lord Nash
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The noble Baroness is right that it is important to distinguish between faith schools and the selection criteria of those schools.

Baroness Brinton Portrait Baroness Brinton
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My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for confirming earlier that some religious free schools can select up to 50%. How does the department monitor the percentage of admission by faith in schools, particularly in those previously independent religious schools that are now free schools.

Lord Nash Portrait Lord Nash
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We are very keen that, under the free schools programme, all schools have as open an admissions policy as possible, consistent with the general policy on faith. I will need to write to the noble Baroness with full details to answer that question.